ALEXIS SMITH Born 1949 in Los Angeles, California Lives and works in Los Angeles, California EDUCATION 1970 Bachelor of Arts, University of California at Irvine ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2001 The Sorcerer?s Apprentice, with Amy Gerstler, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 13 October – 15 January 2002 An Embarrassment of Riches, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York, NY, 21 March – 21 April 2000 The Sorcerer?s Apprentice, with Amy Gerstler, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, 28 April - 9 July Fools Rush In, Ameringer Howard, Boca Raton, FL, 4 May - June 1999 Words to Live By, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 16 October - 13 November. 1997 My Favorite Sport, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 18 September 1997- 4 January 1998. A Matter of Taste, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 16 December 1997 - 12 April 1998. 1995 Alexis Smith: The Farmer?s Daughter, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX, 5 January - 18 February. Alexis Smith: Cherished Notions, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 25 May - 30 June. 1994 Alexis Smith: The Wonder Years, 1973-1983, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 8 January - 12 February. 1993 Alexis Smith, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 10 March - 10 April. Looking for America, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA, 29 March - 30 April 1991 Alexis Smith: Public Works, Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego. San Diego, CA, January 12 - February 24, exhibition catalogue. Alexis Smith, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 21 November 1991 -1 March 1992. Traveled to The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 29 March - 5 July 1992. 1990 Eldorado (On the Road, Part II), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 24 March - 21 April. 1989 Past Lives, Josh Baer Gallery, New York, NY. Past Lives, with Amy Gerstler, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, 2 November - 31 December, artist?s book. 1988 On The Road, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 26 March - 23 April. 1987 Same Old Paradise, Grand Lobby installation, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY,10 October 1987 - 11 January, 1988. Alexis Smith + Joseph Cornell: Parallels, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, 9 July – 30 August, exhibition catalogue. 1986 Viewpoint: Alexis Smith, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2 February - 16 March, exhibitio n catalogue. Currents: Alexis Smith, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 18 February - 20 April. 1985 Jane, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, exhibition catalogue. 1983 Alexis Smith: Selections from Christmas Eve, 1943, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, 23 March – 13 April . 1982 Christmas Eve, 1943, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 25 September - 23 October. Satan's Satellites, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 25 September - 23 October. Chinese Junk, Clocktower, New York, NY. 1981 U.S.A., Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY. Stardust, Bing Theater, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. Stardust, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA. 1980 Raymond Chandler's L.A., Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. New World, commissioned installation, House & Garden Magazine, Condé Nast Studio, New York, NY. Stardust, theatrical performance with Heide Hardin, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA. 1979 Alexis Smith, installation, De Appel, Amsterdam. Alexis Smith, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY. Autumn Sonata, window installation, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Arts (LAICA) Downtown Window, Los Angeles, CA. 1978 Alexis Smith, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY. The Art of Magic, Close-up, performance with Tony DeLap, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. Alexis Smith, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Medium, performance, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 1977 Alexis Smith, Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Alexis Smith, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY. 1976 Alexis Smith, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA. Alexis Smith, Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA. Scherherezade the Storyteller, performance, CARP, Los Angeles, CA. 1975 Anteroom, installation, CARP, Los Angeles, CA. Rapido, installation, Art Galleries, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA. Alexis Smith, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NYexhibition catalogue. Alexis Smith, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA. 1974 Alexis Smith, Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2002 C.O.L.A. 2002, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 3 May – June 30. Roy Dowell, Daniel Mendel-Black, Alexis Smith, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 16 January – 9 February. 2001 Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism; Site Santa Fe 2001 Biennial, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, 14 July 2001 - 6 January 2002. Recasting the Past: Beneath the Hollywood Tinsel, Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, 8 September – 11 October 2001. Evidence of Love; Romance, Desire, & Fantasy, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, 9 February - 31 March. Postmodern Americans: A Selection, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, 25 January - 13 May. A Way with Words: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY 19 January - 30 March. 2000 Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 22 October 2000 – 25 February 2001. Library, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 26 July - 26 August. 12 Divas, Molly Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1 July - 2 September. The Big Go Stands for Goodness: Corita Kent's 1960s POP, Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, 15 January - 26 February, curated by Michael Duncan. Traveled to: Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT; Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV; Art Gallery, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX. 1999 Radical P.A.S.T.: Contemporary Art in Pasadena 1960-1974, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, 7 February - 11 April. The Eclectic Eye, Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collections, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA, 15 January – 2 May. 1998 90069, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 20 January - 14 February. 1997 A Singular Vision: Prints from Landfall Press, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 4 February - 6 May 1997. Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960 - 1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 16 May - 7 September 1997. Traveled to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; 31 October 1997 - 18 January 1998, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; 15 May - 23 August 1998, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, 7 October 1998 - 3 January 1999. Scene of the Crime, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA. 1996 Continuity & Contradiction, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, March. Landfall Press: 25 Years of Printmaking, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI, 13 September - 10 November. Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art 1970-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, 28 February - 3 May 1998. Traveled to: Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, 4 October - 3 January 1999; Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, 30 January - 2 May 1999; Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ, 29 May - 6 September 1999, Davenport Art Museum, Davenport, IA, 10 October - 23 January 1999; University of Texas, Austin, TX, 19 February - 9 April 2000; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, 20 May - August 13, 2000; Marco Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, Mexico, 9 September - 3 December 2000; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, January - March 2000. 1995 Untitled (Reading Room), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 5 July - 19 August. 25 Years: An Exhibition of Selected Works, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 23 September- 28 October. Commercial Art, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA, 4 October- 11 November. Art Works: The PaineWebber Collection of Contemporary Masters, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, 2 July - 24 September. Travelling through May 1997 to Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL. New Visions: Los Angeles Art in the 90?s, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, 25 April – 7 September 1994 Elvis + Marilyn: 2 x Immortal, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 2 November 1994 - 8 January 1995. Traveled through June 1997 to Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA and Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI. The Art Cup, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 3 December 1994 - 4 January 1995. Graphic Language: Printmaking and Popular Culture, 1960-1990, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, 12 February - 3 April. Drawings, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX, 16 June - 23 July . Romance, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, 20 November 1994 - 5 February 1995. Benefit for Dennis Cooper?s ?Frisk,? Thomas Solomon?s Garage, Los Angeles, CA, 6 December - 10 December. 1993 Picasso to Christo: The Evolution of a Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, 4 December 1993 - 30 January 1994. A Complete Hand of One Suit, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, 11 January - 5 February. LA Stories, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, 3 - 29 February. Transitional Realities, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, 1 February - 18 April. Western Myth: Twentieth Century Update, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, 11 February - 11 April Collage and Assemblage, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY, 20 February -27 March. 1992 Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph, 1960-1980, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, exhibition catalog. Connections: Explorations in the Getty Center Collections by Raymond Pettibon, Ed Ruscha, Alexis Smith, Buzz Spector, The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica, CA, 11 July - 3 October The Edge of Childhood, The Heckscher Museum, New York, NY, 13 September - 1 November, curated by Barbara Coller Hollywood, Hollywood, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, exhibition catalogue. A Passion for Art / Watercolors and Works on paper, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, 7 December 1991 - 25 January 1992. Addiction, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA, 2 November 1991 - 11 January 1992. Transforming the Western Image in 20th Century American Art, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA., 21 February - 26 April 1992; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID 23 May - 12 July; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; 7 August - 4 October; The Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY, 25 October - 20 December, exhibition catalogue. Songs of Innocence Songs of Experience, Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York, NY., 27 March – 3 June. Poets/Painters Collaborations, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, NY. 20th Century Collage, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 12 January - 16 February. Traveled to: Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico, 13 June - 25 August; Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France, 11 October - 11 November. Framed, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 4 April - 4 May. 1990 Word as Image: American Art 1960-1990, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI, 15 June - 26 August 1990. Traveled to: Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma City, OK, 17 November - 2 February 1991; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, 23 February - 12 May 1991. Crossing the Line: Word and Image in Art, 1960-1990, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA; 2 September - 14 October, exhibition catalogue. 1989Image World: Art and Media Culture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Selections from the Beatrice and Philip Gersh Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 19 November 1989 – 11 March 1990, exhibition catalogue. Constructing a History: A Focus on MOCA's Permanent Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 19 November 1989 - 11 March 1990. Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-85, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; 24 February - 2 April. Traveled to: New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; 6 May - 18 June; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, 22 July - 10 September andPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 21 October – 31 December, exhibition catalogue. Art in the Public Eye: Selected Developments, Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA, 13 June - 19 August, exhibition catalogue. Forty Years of California Assemblage, Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 4 April - 21 May; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, 9 June - 13 August; Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, 8 September - 12 November,; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, 15 December 1989 – 4 February 1990, exhibition catalogue. A Brave New World: John Baldessari/Vernon Fisher/ Stephen Prina/ Ed Ruscha/ Alexis Smith, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London, Great Britain, 14 March - 15 April, exhibition catalogue. 1988 Striking Distance, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. 22 March - 19 June. Traveled to: Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, 16 July – 28 August; Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA., 17 September - 30 October; University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA., 17 November – 16 December. Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art, James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA., 16 July - 7 September, exhibition catalogue. Auto-Perceptions: Los Angeles Artists and the Car, Gallery 1220, Perloff Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 1-22 April. .Layers: Media and Culture, Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 28 March - 21 April. Contemporary American Collage, 1960-1985, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 9 November - 11 December. Traveled to: Benson Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 24 January - 6 March 1988; Lehigh University Gallery, Bethlehem, PA; 27 March - 8 May, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, 11 September - 23 October; Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, 14 November - 24 December, 1988; Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 24 January - 6 March 1989; University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, 27 March - 8 May 1989 Two Exhibitions of Contemporary Southern California Art: Amerika Haus, Berlin, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA, 1- 26 July, organized by the Mayor's Arts Advisory Committee Berlin 750th Jubilee, curated by Noriko Fujinami Avant-Garde in the Eighties, Installation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 23 April - 12 July, exhibition catalogue. Concept/reality: Los Angeles Public Art, University Art Gallery, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, and The Fine Arts Building, Los Angeles, CA, 20 January - 22 February, curated Michelle Isenberg and Bob Privitt. comic iconoclasm, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Great Britain, June. Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collection, Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 19 June - 4 October. Los Angeles Today: Contemporary Visions, Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany, 2 - 30 May, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1 - 26 July. 1986 Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art 1945-1986, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 10 December 1986 - 10 January 1988, exhibition catalogue A Southern California Collection, Cirrus, Los Angeles, CA, 2 December 1986 - 15 January 1987. Passages: A Survey of California Women Artists, 1945 to Present, Fresno Arts Center and Museum, Fresno, CA, September 1986 - August 1987. Remembrances of Things Past, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, 23 November 1986 - 18 January 1987, exhibition catalogue. Text & Image: The Wording of American Art, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, 11 December 1986 - 3 January 1987. Spectrum: In other words, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 9 May - 29 June. Contemporary Art from Southern California, U.S. Embassy, Helsinki, Finland. Gentleman's Choice, The Woman's Building Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 22 August - 2 October Teaching Artists: The UCLA Faculty of Art & Design, Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 7 October - 9 November. Selections from the William J. Hokin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, 20 April - 16 June, exhibition catalogue. Critical Messages: The Use of Public Media for Political Art by Women, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL. Selections from the Permanent Collection, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA. Artpark, Lewiston, NY (see commissions). Art Out, Claremont Graduate School Art Department, Claremont, CA, 16 September - 4 October. 1984 Verbally Charged Images, Queens Museum, Flushing, New York, 28 April 1984 -13 February 1985. Traveled to: USF Art Galleries, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; University Art Gallery, San Diego State University,San Diego, CA; Art Gallery, California State College, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA; Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA; Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI; Independent Curators, Inc., New York, NY, exhibition catalogue. Crime and Punishment: Reflections of Violence in Contemporary Art, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, exhibition catalogue. An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, exhibition catalogue. Significant Others, Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego, CA. Selections from the Merry and Bill Norris Collection, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA,11 October - 3 November, exhibition catalogue. MacArthur Park Public Art Program: Phase I-IV, Otis Art Institute at Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA, exhibition catalogue. 1983 A Contemporary Collection on Loan from the Rothschild Bank, Ag, Zurich, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, exhibition catalogue. Contemporary Collage - Extensions, Montgomery Art Gallery, Pomona College, Pomona, CA, exhibition catalogue. Directions 1983, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, exhibition catalogue. Exchange Between Artists: Poland - U.S.A., The Douglas Hyde Gallery, University of Dublin, Ireland. Young Talent Awards, 1963-1983, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, exhibition catalogue. Cultural Excavations: Recent and Distant, Japanese American Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, exhibition catalogue. Inaugural Exhibition, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, exhibition catalogue. Perspectives of Landscape, Fuller-Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 7 July – 27 August. The Comic Art Show, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, NY. Contemporary Los Angeles Artists, Nagoya City Museum, Nagoya, Japan, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. New Work, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, July - August. Une Experience Museographique: Echange Entre Artistes, 1931-1982, Cologne - U.S.A., Musé e d'Art Moderne, Paris, France, exhibition catalogue. The Americans: The Collage, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX. Poetic Objects, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC. Poetic Visions, Otis Art Institute at Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA. Words as Images, The Renaissance Society at Bergman Gallery, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, exhibition catalogue (see Contributions, The End, White Walls, 1981.) Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. exhibition catalogue. Messages, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, exhibition catalogue. Humor in Art, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. Museum as Site: Sixteen Installations, (Cathay Installation), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, exhibition catalogue. 1980 Views Over America, Junior Council, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Tableau, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue. Southern California Drawings, Joselott Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT. Audrey Strohl Gallery, Memphis, TN. Xmas in July, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Words and Numbers, Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ. Drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY. 1979 Storytelling in Art, American Foundation for the Arts Museum, Miami, FL. Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, exhibition catalogue. Paper on Paper, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, 29 June - 12 August. Words and Images, Philadelphia College of Art, PA, exhibition catalogue. Decade in Review, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Kunstler Schaufenster, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria, exhibition catalogue. American Narrative/Story of Art, 1968-78, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, exhibition catalogue. Traveling to: Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada; University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA. Paris Biennale à Nice, Musée de Nice, France. Paris Biennale à Strausbourg, Strausbourg, France, exhibition catalogue. Southern California Styles of the 60's and 70's, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA. Narration, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, exhibition catalogue. Gallery as Lithography Studio, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA. 1977 Artists? Books, Mills College, Oakland, CA. Narrative Themes/Audio Works, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. Contemporary Miniatures, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, exhibition catalogue. Paris Biennale, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France, exhibition catalogue. The American Section of the Paris Biennale, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY. Gold & Silver, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY. Via Los Angeles: Asher, Burden, C. Davis, Hunt, Ruppersberg, Smith, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR AutobiographiCalifornial Fantasies, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. Southland Video Anthology, Part I, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, exhibition catalogue. Los Angeles, Penthouse Gallery, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. New Talent/New Selections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, exhibition catalogue. 1975 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, exhibition catalogue. Both Kinds: Contemporary Art From Los Angeles, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, exhibition catalogue. Four Los Angeles Artists: Foulkes, Goode, Smith, Wheeler, Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY. Traveled to: Corcoran Gallery of American Art, Washington, DC; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT. Work, Image, Number, Sarah Lawrence College Gallery, Bronxville, NY, exhibition catalogue. Visual/Verbal, The Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA. University of California at Irvine, 1965-75, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA. 1974 Word Works, Art Gallery, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA, exhibition catalogue. Works Selected by Nicholas Wilder, Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV. 1972 Greater Magic, Mungar, Smith, Titus, Art Gallery, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA. Margaret Lowe, Barbara Munger, Alexis Smith, Margaret Wilson, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. Southern California Attitudes, Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, Pasadena, CA, exhibition catalogue. COMMISSIONS Larger than Life, terrazzo floors based on archival black and white athletic photographs, Jerome Schottenstein Center (sports arena), The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, completed 1999. Taste, permanent mixed media wall installation for The Restaurant at The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1997. Terrazzo floorscapes for South and West Lobbies, Los Angeles Convention Center Expansion Project, Los Angeles, CA, 1993. Untitled permanent mixed media installation for the Alaska Building, downtown, Seattle, WA, Seattle Arts Commission, 1992. Snake Path, slate and concrete path with granite book and bench, The Stuart Collection, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 1992. Playhouse Square, plaza design for downtown Cleveland, OH. Preliminary design phase, 1989-1992. Collaborative proposals for Miami International Airport, with R.M.Fischer: Concourse B, 1988, and Concourse D, Miami, FL, 1989. Mini-Monuments, MacArthur Park Public Arts Program, Los Angeles, CA, completed 1986. Niagara, granite monument, Artpark, Lewiston, NY, 1985. Proposals for mixed-media collage on painted wall, 1985; The Brooklyn Public Library?s Central Library, New York; (not realized) California, collage works in permanent painted installation, California State Office Building, Santa Rosa, CA, completed 1984. The Grand, permanent painted installation on three levels with collage works, Keeler Grand Foyer, De Vos Hall, Grand Center, Grand Rapids, MI, completed 1983, catalogue. Starlight, collage works in permanent painted installation, Unity Savings and Loan, West Hollywood, CA. Completed 1982. Building sold and work reacquired by artist, December 1991. There's No Place Like Home, collage works in permanent painted installation, home of Aviva and Carl Covitz, Los Angeles, CA, 1982. AWARDS 2002 C.O.L.A. Individual Artist Fellowship 2000 Epoxy Terrazzo Job of the Century, National Terrazzo and Mosaic Association 1999 Terrazzo Job of the Year, National Terrazzo and Mosaic Association 1995 Residency, The Rockefeller Foundation Study Center, Bellagio, Italy 1987 Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts. 1986 Fourth Councilmanic District Civic Service Award, Los Angeles. 1983 Key to the City, Grand Rapids, MI. 1976 Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts. 1974 New Talent Award, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. BIBLIOGRAPHY Filler, Martin. ?When a Long Eclipse Yields to Light.? The New York Times, 15 April 2001, sec. 2, p. 33. Glueck, Grace. ?Alexis Smith; ?An Embarrassment of Riches.?? The New York Times, 6 April 2001, sec. B, p. 36. Isenberg, Barbara. State of the Arts; California Artists Talk About Their Work. 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Karys, April. ?Poking Fun at Life?s Little Inconsistencies.? Telegram-Tribune, 26 January 1994, 19. ?Gander.? Tokyo, Japan: Le Millenium 8 (1994): illus. Scarborough, James. Flash Art, October 1993, 88-89. Donahue, Marlena. ?Alexis Smith.? Sculpture, July/August 1993, 42-43. Muchnic, Suzanne. Exhibition review, ARTnews, Summer 1993, 184. Dance Ink, Summer 1993, 44-45, illus. Muchnic, Suzanne. Exhibition review, ?Alexis Smith at Margo Leavin Gallery.? ARTnews, Summer 1993, 184. ?News: Paradise Built.? Landscape Architecture, May 1993, 24, illus. Pagel, David. Exhibition review, Los Angeles Times, 18 March 1993. Tager, Alisa. Flash Art, January/February 1993, 130. Ollman, Leah. ?A Snake in the Grass at UCSD.? Los Angeles Times, 23 October 1992, sec. F, pp. 1, 8, illus. Pagel, David. Exhibition review, Forum International, September/October 1992, 102. Pagel, David. Exhibition review, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 1992. Smith, Roberta. Interview, Atelier Magazine of International Art, April 1992, 25-37, 40-41, illus. McKenna, Kristine. ?Frames of Reference.? L.A. Style, April 1992, 62-67, illus. Loughery, John. The Hudson Review, Spring 1992, 126-127. Drohojowska, Hunter. ?A Cut Above.? Los Angeles Times Calendar, 22 March 1992, illus. Heartney, Eleanor. ?Alexis Smith: Whitney Museum.? ARTnews, March 1992, 124, illus. Pincus, Robert L. ?UCSD making artful impact: Installations speak to surroundings.? The San Diego Union Tribune, 9 February 1992, Arts section, p. 1, illus. Fretz, Sada. ?In Short: Nonfiction ?Alexis Smith? by Richard Armstrong.? Entertainment Weekly, 24 January 1992, 52-53, illus. Knight, Christopher. ?Alexis Smith Plays The Name Game.? Elle, December 1991, 128-130, illus. Filler, Martin. "Inventing Alexis Smith.? House and Garden, December 1991, 86-87. Kimmelman, Michael. ?Flotsam, Jetsam and Quotes In Collages by Alexis Smith." The New York Times, 29 November 1991, sec. B, pp. 2,4. Amstrong, Richard. "Alexis Smith: Queen of The California Scene.? The Journal of Art, November 1991, 31. Grynsztejn, Madeleine. "Alexis Smith. Interview, Journal of Contemporary Art 2, (Fall/Winter 1991). Drohojowska, Hunter. ?The Public Art of Alexis Smith.? Artspace, Summer 1991, 60-66, illus. Johnson, Ken. ?Alexis Smith and Amy Gerstler at Josh Baer.? Art in America, , March 1991, 133. Jarmusch, Ann. ?Slithery roads lead to public installations.? San Diego Tribune, January 1991. ________. ? An artist for the people.? San Diego Tribune, 14 January 1991, sec. D, pp. 1, 10. ________ ?Smith forte: environmental design.? San Diego Tribune, 11 January 1991, sec. C, p. 5. Larson, Kay. ?Alexis Smith: A Rare Bird in Manhattan.? New York, 7 January 1991, 50, 51. Muchnic, Suzanne. ?Sizing Up Alexis Smith.? Los Angeles Times, 6 January 1991, 3, 74, illus. Levy, Mark. ?World Chronicle: Freezing Freud and Other Nasty Games.? Art International 13 (Winter 1990). ?Goings About Town.? The New Yorker, 24 December 1990, 16. ?Alexis Smith and Amy Gerstler: Past Lives.? Exhibition review, The New York Times, 14 December 1990. Joselit, David. ?Public Art & The Public Purse.? Art in America, July 1990, 143-150, illus. Weissman, Benjamin. ?Alexis Smith.? Artforum, Summer 1990, 173, illus. Pagel, David. ?Alexis Smith.? Exhibition review, Art Issues 12 (Summer 1990): 32, illus. Kandel, Susan. ?L.A. in Review.? Arts Magazine 64 (Summer 1990): 105-6, illus. Andreoli-Woods, Lynn. ?Alexis Smith's Dreams, 'On the Road.?? Los Angeles Reader, 13 April 1990, 32, illus. Wilson, William. Exhibition review, Los Angeles Times, 30 March 1990, 16, illus. Kornblau, Gary. Exhibition review, Art Issues, January 1990, 40, cover illus. Frank, Peter. "Art Pick of the Week: Alexis Smith & Amy Gerstler, Gary Simmons.? L.A. Weekly, 29 December 1989, 122. McKenna, Kristine. ?Past Lives Explores the Terrors and Perils of Childhood.? Los Angeles Times, 23 December 1989, sec. F, p. 15, illus. Munchnic, Suzanne. "ART/LA89 Mixes Culture, Commerce.? Los Angeles Times, 4 December 1989, sec. F, pp. 1, 6, illus. Joselit, David. "Lessons in Public Sculpture.? Art in America. December 1989, 130-135, illus. Bolle, Sonja. Los Angeles Times Book Review, December 1989, 6, cover illus. Andreoll-Woods, Lynn. "One Chair Is Worth at Least 10,000 Words.? Reader's Guide to Art, 24 November 1989, 19, illus. Kurcfeld, Michael." The Artist as Sleuth.? L.A. Weekly 27 January 1989, 75, 89, illus. Hopkins, Henry. California Painters: New Work. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1989. Gerstler, Amy. "Alexis Smith: detonated cliches." Visions Art Quarterly Winter 1988, 15, illus. Pincus, Robert L. ?Alexis Smith at Margo Leavin.? Art in AmeriCalifornia, December1988, 161, illus. Selwyn, Mark. "Alexis Smith.? FlashArt, Summer 1988. 138-139. Weisman, Benjamin. "Art: Pick of the Week.? L.A. Weekly, 22 April 1988, 123, illus. Suderburg, Erika. ?Watching the Myth Unfold.? Artweek, 16 April 1988, 7, illus. Wilson, William. ?The Galleries, La Cienega Area.? Los Angeles Times, 1 April 1988, sec. VI, p.18. ?Spazio Umano/ Human Space.? International Reviewbook of Art and Literature, February 1988, 152-155. Saunders, Wade. ?Los Angeles.? Bomb, Winter 1988, 56. Smith, Roberta. ?Alexis Smith.? The New York Times, 1 January 1988, 14. Munchnic, Suzanne. ?Art Review: California Mural Takes Chill Off Brooklyn - but Take Another Look.? Los Angeles Times Calendar, 24 December 1987, illus. Knight, Christopher. ?Paradise found in New York museums: New mural, exhibits view American myth.? Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 15 November 1987, sec. E, p. 8., illus. Drohojowska, Hunter. ?Alexis Smith R Tist.? Artforum, October 1987, 86-90, illus. McKenna, Kristine. ?13 Artists Share Their 'Rememberances'.? Los Angeles Times, 3 January 1987, sec. VI, p. 8. Pincus, Robert L. ?13 artists remember the past. . .in 13 different ways.? The San Diego Union, 25 December 1986, sec. C, p. 10, illus. Gottlieb, Shirley. ?Past makes it presence known at L.B. Museum.? Long Beach Press Telegram, 14 December 1986. Hackman, William. ?Museum II: The Sequel.? California, December 1986, 78-83,106,129. McGuigan, Cathleen and Janet Huck. ?Picasso in LaLa Land.? Newsweek, 24 November 1986, 86-88, illus. Knight, Christopher. ?Unveiling the state of L.A.'s art.? Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 21 September 1986, sec. E, p. 6. Rugoff, Ralph. ?Alexis Smith.? L.A. Style, July 1986, 28, illus. Drohojowska, Hunter. ?Geniuses At Work.? Republic 7 (April 1986): 22-43, illus. Skarjune, David. ?Alexis Smith: Walker Art Center.? Vinyl 3, (15 March 1986): illus. Lisi, David. ?Jane Gang.? House & Garden, February 1986, 78, illus. Liss, Andrea. ?History Reconceptualized.? Artweek, 1986, 5,6. Greenstein, Jane. ?Monuments to the Art of Losing.? Los Angeles Times, 10 December 1985, sec. 6, p. 2, illus. Drohojowska, Hunter. Exhibition review, ARTnews, November 1985, 127, illus. Gardner, Colin. Exhibition review, Artforum, November 1985, 127, illus. Pincus, Robert L. ?Two give pop art a new twist.? The San Diego Union, 6 October 1985, sec. E, p. 1, illus. Knight, Christopher. ?Season-opening shows may presage great art year.? Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 6 October 1985, sec. E, p. 8, illus. Danieli, Fidel. ?Not So Plain Janes.? Artweek 16 (5 October 1985). Clothier, Peter. ?Alexis Smith at Margo Leavin Gallery.? Exhibition review, LA Weekly, 4 October 1985. Drohojowska, Hunter. ?Her artwork combines the myths and madness of everyday life.? Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 15 September 1985. Muchnic, Suzanne. Exhibition review, Los Angeles Times, 13 September 1985. Garris, Laurie. ?The MacArthur Park Program.? Arts & Architecture, July 1985, 16,17. Pincus, Robert. ?Turning a Park into Art.? Los Angeles Times, 26 January 1985. Levin, Kim. Theories of Contemporary Art. New York: Prentice Hall, 1985. Filler, Martin. ?Puttin' on the Ritz.? House & Garden, June 1984, 213. Tucker, John G. ?Designed on the Right Track.? Interior Design, April 1984, 200-202. Harris, Stacy Paleologos. ?Insights on Sites: Perspectives on Art in Public Places.? Partners for Livable Spaces, 1984, 12-13. Marshall, Richard. American Art Since 1970, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1984, 106-107. Knight, Christopher. ?L.A.'s Art Direction: Five Painters Shape the City's New Cultural Image.? Gentlemen's Quarterly, August 1983, 136-138. Ashbery, John. ?Biennials Bloom in the Spring.? Newsweek, 18 April 1983, 93-94. Freudenheim, Susan. ?Landscape Painting.? Arts & Architecture 1, (Spring 1983): 21-26 Wortz, Melinda. ?Alexis Smith at Margo Leavin and Rosamund Felsen.? Exhibition review, Images & Issues, March/April 1983, 59-60. Glueck, Grace. ?Two Biennials: One Looking East, One Looking West.? The New York Times, 27 March 1983. Knight, Christopher. ?L.A. Art on the Move.? Art News, January 1983, 74-75 Plagens, Peter. ?Site Wars.? Art in America, January 1982. Knight, Christopher. ?Art Exhibit That's An Event.? Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 20 October 1982. Weisberg, Ruth. ?Alexis Smith: A Forties Escapism.? Artweek XIII (16 October 1982). Smith, Roberta. ?Some Things Old, Some Things New.? The Village Voice, 27 April 1982. Danieli, Fidel. ?Alexis Smith/Cathay in L.A.? Images & Issues, Winter 1981/82. Knight, Christopher. ?A Meeting of Media.? Los Angeles Herald Examiner/California Living, 22 November 1981. Schejeldahl, Peter. ?Spanning Time Zones.? The Village Voice, 2 September 1981. ?Artists on Architecture.? Progressive Architecture, September 1981. Stevens, Mark. ?California Dreamers.? Newsweek, 17 August 1981. Knight, Christopher. ?Sight Seeing at the County Museum.? Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 26 July 1981. Wilson, William. ?A Museum Where Art is a Site to Behold.? Los Angeles Times, 26 July 1981. Perrone, Jeff. ?Notes on the Whitney Biennial.? Images & Issues, Summer 1981. Smith, Roberta. ?Biennial Blues.? Art in America, April 1981. Casademont, Joan. ?Alexis Smith, Holly Solomon Gallery.? Exhibition review, Artforum, April 1981. Smith, Valerie de F.D. ?Flash Art: New York.? Exhibition review, Flash Art, March/April 1981. Armstrong, Richard. ?Flash Art: Los Angeles.? Exhibition review, Flash Art, March/April 1981. Quinn, Joan. ?All American Art: Alexis Smith.? Interview, March 1981. Munchnic, Suzanne. ?Visions Has Sense of Humor.? Los Angeles Times, 2 February 1981. Knight, Christopher. ?Images With No Meaning.? Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 1 February 1981. Filler, Martin. ?Rediscovering America.? House & Garden, February 1981. Larson, Kay. ?Old and New Image Makers.? New York Magazine, 19 January 1981. Levin, Kim. ?Art: The Way It Wasn't.? The Village Voice, 14 January 1981. ?L.A.'s Finest.? Air California, December 1980. Strini, Tom. ?Performance - L.A.: Biography by Inference.? Artweek, 22 November 1980. Berman, Avis. ?Women Artists 1980: A DeCaliforniade of Progress.? Interview, Art News, October 1980. Armstrong, Richard. ?Portrait: Los Angeles.? Portfolio, September/October 1980, illus. ?Alexis Smith: Individualism in Art.? Profile, Westside Women Today, Santa Monica Outlook, 28 August 1980, illus. Wilson, William. ?Tableau.? Los Angeles Times, 24 February 1980. Carlson, Prudence. ?Alexis Smith at Holly Solomon.? Art in America, September 1979. Wortz, Melinda. ?Back to Back.? Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Journal, June/July 1979. Stevens, Mark. ?The Dizzying Decade.? Newsweek, 26 March 1979. Schejeldahl, Peter. ?Reviews - Los Angeles.? Artforum, January 1979. Gamwell, Lynn. ?Alexis Smith interprets Thomas Mann.? Artweek, 18 November 1978. Wilson, William. ?Reviews.? Los Angeles Times, 3 November 1978. ?Alexis Smith,? Flash Art/Heute Kunst, November/December 1978. Rubinfien, Leo. ?Through Western Eyes.? Art in America, September/October 1978. ?Alexis Smith.? Art Present 6/7 (Winter 1977). Radice, Barbara. ?Alexis Smith.? Data, January/February 1977. Marmer, Nancy. ?Alexis Smith: The Narrative Act.? Artforum, December 1976. Burkhart, Dorothy. ?Alexis Smith: A Literary Sensibility.? Exhibition review, Artweek, May 1976. Marmer, Nancy. ?Reviews - Los Angeles.? Artforum, February 1976. Wilson, William. ?Alexis Smith: A Treasure in Collage.? Exhibition review, Los Angeles Times, 15 December 1975. Russell, John, The New York Times, 22 November 1975. Ballatore, Sandy. "Alexis Smith - Object Language Collages.? Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Journal, August/September 1975. Russell, John. ?Whitney Finds This Land Is Its Land.? The New York Times, 6 February 1975. Wortz, Melinda. "Alexis Smith - Concepts.? Artweek, March 1974. Livingston, Jane. ?Ms. in the City of Angels.? Art in America, January/February 1973. EXHIBITION CATALOGUES 2000 Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art 1970-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA. Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark. 1995 25 Years, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 1992 Hollywood, Hollywood, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA. Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph, 1960-1990, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA. 1991 Alexis Smith: Public Works, University of California, San Diego, Mandeville Gallery, La Jolla, CA. Alexis Smith Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Transforming the Western Image in Twentieth Century American Art, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA. Crossing the Line: Word and Image in Art 1960-1990, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA. Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-85, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH. 24 February – 2 April. Forty Years of California Assemblage, Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA. Art in the Public Eye: Selected Developments, Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA. A Brave New World: John Baldessari/Vernon Fisher//Stephen Prina/ Ed Ruscha/Alexis Smith, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London, Great Britain. Image World: Art and Media Culture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Selections from the Beatrice and Philip Gersh Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. Avant-Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. 1986 Viewpoint: Alexis Smith,Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Rememberances of Things Past, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA. Individuals: A Selected History in Contemporary Art 1945-1986, Installation, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. 1985 Jane, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 7 September – 12 October. Selections from the William J. Hokin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL. 1984 Verbally Charged Images, Queens Museum, Flushing, NY. Crime and Punishment: Reflections of Violence in Contemporary Art, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA. An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, (works in installation), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Selections from the Merry and Bill Norris Collection, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA. MacArthur Park Public Art Program: Phase I-IV, Otis Art Institute at Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA. 1983 A Contemporary Collection on Loan from the Rothschild Bank, Ag, Zurich, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA. Contemporary Collage --- Extensions, Montgomery Art Gallery, Pomona College, Pomona, CA. New Directions, 1983, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC. Young Talent Awards, 1963-1983, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. Cultural Excavations: Recent and Distant, Japanese American Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA. Inaugural Exhibition, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York. 1982 Une Experience Museographique: Echange Entre Artistes, 1931-1982, Cologne-U.S.A., Musé e d?Art Moderne, Paris, France. 1981 Forty Famous Californians: Recent Unique Works on Paper, Judith Christian Gallery, New York, NY. Words as Images, The Renaissance Society at Bergman Gallery, The University of Chicago, Chicago,IL. Whitney Biennial, (Works in installation), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Messages, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA. Museum as Site: Sixteen Installations, Cathay Installation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. 1980 Tableau, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. 1979 Kunstler Schaufenster, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria. Words and Images, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA. 1978 Paris Bienniale à Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France. Narration, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA. 1977 Contemporary Miniatures, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA. Paris Bienniale, Musé e d?Art Moderne, Paris, France. American Narrative/Story of Art, 1968-78, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX. 1976 Southland Video Anthology, Part I, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA. New Talent/New Selections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. 1975 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Both Kinds: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA. Work, Image, Number, Sarah Lawrence College Gallery, Bronxville, NY. 1974 Word Works, Art Gallery, Mount San Antonio College, Walnut, CA. Southern California Attitudes, Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, Pasadena, CA. PUBLICATIONS, CONTRIBUTIONS, COMMISSIONED GRAPHICS 1997 My Favorite Sport, exhibition poster for Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. 1996 The Underworld, Metro Art Book Project, collaboration with Amy Gerstler, Metropolitan Transit Authority, Los Angeles, CA. Cinephilia, poster and program artwork for Telluride Film Festival, Telluride, CO. Crown of Weeds, cover for a book of poetry by Amy Gerstler, published by Penguin, U.S.A. 1992 Self-Portrait, illustration for The New Yorker, 27 January 1992. The Burning of Los Angeles, cover for Design Quarterly, Number 157, Fall 1992. Queen for a Day, retrospective exhibition poster for Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, version 1992. 1990 Book plates for Getty Center Library, Santa Monica, CA. 1989 Blue Chip, poster for ART/LA '89 , (Los Angeles Art Fair). Past Lives, collaborative artists? book, with Amy Gerstler, published by Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA. 1987 Tropical Paradise, Journal, Winter 1987, 50. 1986 The True Bride, cover for a book of poetry by Amy Gerstler, Lapis Press, Santa Monica, CA. Watch Your Step, CTA Platform billboard commissioned by Artemesia Gallery for Critical Messages, Chicago, IL. 1984 Variety---The Spice of Life, premier issue of MOCA newsletter, For Members, commissioned by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. Not in Utopia, commemorative poster, commissioned by University of Southern California, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Los Angeles, CA. Virgin Sacrifice, exhibition poster for New Talent Awards: 1963-1983, commissioned by Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. Valentine, postcard insert, Journal, Winter 1983. 1981 Poetic Visions, deck of playing cards commissioned by Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA, reprinted by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1992. The End, White Walls, Chicago, IL, Summer 1981. Shanghai Express, Los Angeles Herald Examiner/California Living, 22 November 1981. 1978 Chandlerisms, photo collages, Journal, October 1978. Italics, photo collages, The Paris Review, Fall 1978. 1977 Alone, small book published by the artist. 1975 Avalanche, centerfold, Fall 1975. LECTURES AND VISITING ARTIST PROGRAMS 2001 University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 2000 Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO. Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palms Springs, CA. NTMA Convention, Banff, Canada Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA. Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA. The Stuart Collection, University of California, San Diego, CA. The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA. 1999 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA. San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA. Claremont Graduate School of Art, Claremont, CA. Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA. Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA. 1998 The J. Paul Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. Rio Hondo College, Cerritos, CA. Antioch University, Los Angeles, CA. Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA. Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA. 1997 UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA. 1996 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Summer Arts Program, California State University, Long Beach, CA. Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA. 1995 Anderson Ranch Art Center, Aspen, CO. Villa Serbelloni, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy. 1994 San Luis Obispo Art Center, CA. Los Angeles Art Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, Los Angeles, CA. University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, HI. Kawai Community College, HI. 1993 Artist-in-Residence, Pasadena City College, CA Mills College, Oakland, CA. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV. 1992 California State University, Fullerton, CA. La Jolla Museum of Art, San Diego, CA. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA. University of California, San Diego, CA. 1991 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. University of California, Los Angeles, CA. Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA. 1990 The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. 1989 Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. San Jose Museum of Art, CA. Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA. 1988 University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. 1987 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. 1986 Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA. Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA. Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA. 1985 California State University, Fresno, CA. University of California, Los Angeles, CA. Loyola Law School (Art and Law Seminar), Los Angeles, CA. Foundation for Art Resources, Los Angeles, CA. 1984 Claremont Graduate School of Art, Claremont, CA. California State University, Long Beach, CA. 1983 Art as Opera, UCLA Extension, Los Angeles, CA. University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI. 1982 Women's Caucus for Art, Los Angeles, CA. University of California, Irvine, CA. Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA. 1981 Yale University, Graduate School of Sculpture, New Haven, CT. Art in the 80's, UCLA Extension, Los Angeles, CA. California State University, Fullerton. Contemporary Arts Council, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA. 1979 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. Claremont Graduate School, Visiting Artist (Spring), Lecturer (Summer), Claremont, CA. 1978 College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. Chapman College, Orange, CA. University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA. California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA. 1977 The College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. Mills College, Oakland, CA. University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA. 1976 Western Illinois State University, Macomb, IL. Claremont Graduate School of Art, Claremont, CA. The Women's Building, Los Angeles, CA. 1975 University of California, Berkeley, CA. University of California, Los Angeles, CA. University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. 1974 Laverne College, Walnut, CA. California State University, Fresno, CA. 1973 University of California, Los Angeles, CA. 1972 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA. HONORARY POSITIONS 2000 Jurist, Alport Awards, California Institute for the Arts. 1996 Jurist, Rome Prize, American Academy, New York. 1995 Jurist, Pew Fellowships, Philadelphia. 1990-95 Member, Board of Trustees, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center. 1987 National Endowment for the Arts Public Art Policy Project. 1986 Jurist, Fellowship Awards, Chicago Art Institute, 1986. 1986, 1989 Selection Panelist, Public Art, National Endowments for the Arts.. 1985-86 Trustee, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. 1980 Selection Panelist, Conceptual Art, National Endowment for the Arts. 1979-1985 Member, Artist Advisory Council, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. 1975-1988 Trustee, City Building Educational Program, Los Angeles. TEACHING POSITIONS 1996 California Institute for the Arts, Valencia. 1998 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Meadows Distinguished Visiting Professor 1990 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME. 1985-88 University of California, Los Angeles. 1983 Kendall School of Design, artist-in-residence. 1979-82 University of California, Los Angeles. 1977-78 University of California, San Diego. 1976 University of California, Irvine. 1975 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia.